Explaining Episodes of Growth Accelerations, Decelerations, and Collapses in Western Africa /

The growth literature has had problems explaining the "sub-Saharan African growth dummy" in cross-country regressions. Instead of taking the usual approach of focusing on long-run growth and assuming that sub-Saharan countries have homogenous parameters in growth regressions, we concentrat...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salinas, Gonzalo
Other Authors: Imam, Patrick
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/287
Online Access:Full text available on IMF